For many years now I've talked about Internet
"trolls", people who have nothing better to do with their lives than
antagonize other people online, see: http://hpanwo-voice.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/skeptics-troll-their-own.html.
Indeed, I've had them myself. I'm also acutely aware that some people targeted
by trolls are far more vulnerable than a certain tough, ugly ex-Hospital Porter
you might be familiar with. I know of many cases in which trolls have driven
some people to depression and even suicide. In such cases there's blood on the
hands of the trolls, as far as I'm concerned, and they should be treated as
murderers.
My first instinct was to rejoice when the mainstream news
covered not one, but three such cases
in the space of a week, see: http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/twitter-trolls-send-mary-beard-2123303
and: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-23584769
and: http://news.sky.com/story/1129255/daniel-perry-suicide-over-web-blackmail.
But then I remembered that the UK Government has been trying to pressure the
law into bringing Internet censorship in, see: http://www.geekosystem.com/error-451/,
so sadly there's no doubt in my mind that the ordeal of the women on Twitter and
memory of the two young people who killed themselves is being exploited for
this agenda. Now anybody who doesn't agree with Internet censorship will be
branded "heartless and uncaring about the victims of cyberbullying!".
Believe me, nobody feels more sympathy than I do for those trolled! But we must
still be on our guard against harnessing their plight to a scheme to shut down
the people's access to free information. The ultimate goal of the Government's
plan is to have the ability to block any website that publishes suppressed
information and promotes subversive thinking... like HPANWO.
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